This is a classic in America when calling Europe or International.
The dial out in corporate, usually you used 9. Then you google how to dial in Europe because the numbers are not natural. Google mentions dial 11 + country code + phone number.
So people hit 9 to dial out, then 11 to dial in Europe. Instantly you hear: Emergency 911, is this an emergency?
No, 9011 is correct. "011", the international exit code for calling from the US, is what the + gets mapped to in a number such as "+49 xxx". It is followed by the destination country code (which starts with a 3 or 4 for Europe [1]), and then the local number. So for example, to call a number in Germany from a PBX in the US:
9-011-49-(German number) [3]
For long-distance domestic, the national trunk prefix should be used instead. For the US, this is 1 (unrelated to the US country code, which is also 1):
9-1-(10-digit US number)
For local calls, you do not need the trunk prefix, so you would dial:
9-(7-digit US number)
However, no US (or North American) area code nor central office code starts with a 1 [4]. So even in the above two cases, the sequence "911" should never occur.
If us-east-1 going down for about 24 hours costs Amazon $1.3+ billion, wouldn't that make the yearly revenue of that region something like $475 billion? I think that's like AWS and Amazon yearly revenues put together.
I still have my doubts about 24 hours of reduced performance on us-east-1 being so costly that it's equivalent to 1% of yearly Amazon revenue. I know that we run some services on us-east-1 and they never completely stopped working during the downtime, so it wasn't a complete region failure.
How will it work? Is it a kind of special trophy that will gain value over time as people win that NFT trophies over and over again? Who won it, when and how will be track in that blockchain? I'm curious and wondering if some people could explain to me like I'm 5 years old
Is this just protifing on a topical craze or does this have staying power? What experience does in-game NFTs offer to players that they otherwise cannot find in traditional database backed assets?
And literally every single thing they are doing could be achieved with a simple database shared across games, as they already do. The only thing NFTs achieve here is just being used for marketing.
Yes, it's a "real" use in a "real" company, but that's like trying to argue that Bitcoins are useful and totally absolutely not a scam because a few real world companies decided to accept them as payment. Like, "sure, wink wink".
But is it actually adding anything? Even the article says what they are doing (reselling digital goods) doesn't require any blockchain technology at all.
